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Dick Cluster


Born
The United States
Genre
Nonfiction, Poetry, Mystery


What seems like mystery, says a reggae lyric by Jimmy Cliff, is only untold history. I've written both crime novels and history books, as well popular economics (another mystery, for sure). Some of these have been translated into Japanese, Danish, Hungarian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Bulgarian.

Most recently, a few years living in Cuba led me to do translation myself, from Spanish to English, and to co-author a social history of Havana with a Cuban colleague. We tell what it's been like for people living in the Cuban capital over the past five centuries, and something about why.

You can find some of my translations linked via this author page; others won't show up here, because the industry is still ambivalent about translators, but if you se ...more

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Return To Sender Repulse Monkey Obligations Of The Bone
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“He doubted there was much of a future for him after this.”
― Dick Cluster, Repulse Monkey
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“Sure you don’t want a drink? I’ve got Jack Daniel’s, which you can’t get anyplace else in this country, believe me.”
― Dick Cluster, Return To Sender
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